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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
> he being the one with the idea and money Ideas are worth $0. Nevermind you'll switch the idea to something else. And the type of person who wants to a get patent first instead of getting users is precisely the kind of person you s
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Is there a way to contact you? If you are willing to be a guinea pig I have something for you to try. From the three main things people need (competence, relatedness, autonomy) you seem to be missing autonomy.
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
It's not only about knowing how to build (the lots of tiny specific skills this article mentions). It's also about choosing what to build. If you study what novelists say, they are extremely uncomfortable when they start new work.
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
I'm disappointed in Stripe on this one. There should be better rates for micropayments.
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Establishing a monopoly is more valuable than monetizing, which is what Snapchat has. You can monetize later, but you can't snatch all the users later.
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
That link is full of wisdom, thank you for posting it! I never met anyone who wrote their own wiki and used it for so long. I was surprised the biggest thing for you was speed and full-text search, and also by this comment: "I think pe
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
What would you do to improve how your subconscious works?
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
I'm trying to understand what you are saying. I also see holes in some arguments. 1) I agree there's gigantic risk. If I understood you correctly, you are saying great programmers should have less of the downside of risk with more
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
The rewards for being a great programmer already exceed the rewards for other options. Great programmers can clump together and start companies, and be rewarded more than they are offered by existing companies. This could destroy existing c
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Once all great programmers get a job they like they don't switch, even if you have the money to pay them more. They like what they are working on. If a great programmer is working on the next Google, and you pay them more to work on so
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
A table in the article says Technical Writers have an 89% chance of losing their jobs. But it's only 6% for editors. Why? Will technical instructions be automatically generated? How?
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Michelle, you are in inspiration! Have you found yourself having different design ideas after this change? Or having developed a new style in your creations because of "mistakes" you make when you can't control your nose very
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
It's not more wealth that would generate more projects. It's finishing a previous project that would generate more projects. You don't even get to finish the project without a great programmer so you don't get to start n
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
It's not a zero-sum game, and it's not about supply and demand. It's about growth, and hitting a limit on the total wealth generated. I just explained this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8805475
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
It's not only about wages. It's also about total wealth generated, which is driven by growth. The issue is you hit a limit. Any startup eventually hits the limits of the market it operates in. But the point is startups don't
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Because it's incorrect. Maybe it is about wages for companies that don't understand there's huge variance in productivity of programmers. But it is about talent and not wages for companies that do. You do have a valid arg
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
> If Paul can figure out a way to filter in the great developers while filtering out those that are only coming to make money Maybe he did. They become founders. They start companies worth 100x - 1000x their annual salary. As you go up t
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Considering how Apple and Google tried to fix the salaries of software engineers to stay low, maybe even that isn't an option in big companies.
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
What are you really against? What do you want to see happen?
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
> What is wrong with immigrating to Europe / Asia? You may be right here. I used to think it's better to immigrate to the US, because that's where everyone was immigrating to. I thought I wouldn't find good people els
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
When I tried to run Plan 9 in a VM I gave up because I couldn't figure out how to open a shell in the window manager and type ls. I also couldn't figure out how to use the text editor (why can't editors be simple enough so yo
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
> Community is the single most important factor in whether or not a technology will succeed in the longer term or not. I'm not so sure. I wouldn't make that statement about Java for example. Technologies that succeed in the lon
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
What I haven't understood about Plan 9 is if it does process migration. If you run a multi-threaded, computation-intensive process will Plan 9 automatically distribute the computation to all CPU servers and gather up the results? EDIT:
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Thanks. This helps. I didn't see tab completion when I was running the installer and I gave up. Thank you for answering my question.
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
What stopped me from using FreeBSD a year ago was lack of automatic tab completion on the shell. I would like to try FreeBSD again. Does anyone know if this works now? edit: clarified the reason I ask is because I want to know.
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
The biggest thing I learned from this downvoting is that sometimes it's better to only quote new knowledge and let others pick up the conversation from there.
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Am I the only one who suspects a high number of commits is a sign of good programming, and by induction good programmers?
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
Paul Graham: "A startup is a company designed to grow" No wonder that's not what the word means in common usage considering startups themselves haven't been common enough to make it into hundred-year old dictionaries.
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
> prefer young people because bullshit is harder to swallow the older you get You know, it's frightening this sentence is still true if you replace "bullshit" with "dreams" and "swallow" with "beli
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by yellow_and_gray 12y ago
I didn't say it's bad to have a smaller business. I said it's bad to have a smaller startup. Because by definition a startup is a company designed to grow. If a business isn't growing then it's not a startup. Betwee

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